SPED Instructional Care Aide

The SPED Instructional Care Aide provides direct academic, behavioral, and personal care support to individual students and/or small groups with special needs.

Requirements

• Escorts, assists, and/or supervises student(s) during play periods, movement throughout the building, to and from buses, toileting routines, lunch, smacks, specialized and inclusive classes, community activities, and other times as designated
• Assists teacher(s) in implementing behavior management plans
• Communicate any problems or concerns regarding students to the supervising teacher
• Work with individual students or small groups to reinforce skills previously introduced by the teacher
• Assists the teacher in maintaining and organizing work and study areas, equipment, materials, and facilities
• Performs health-related procedures such as: feeding, lifting, positioning, carrying, toileting, tube feeding, cleaning catheterization, and suctioning equipment
• Participate in workshops, in-service training, and parent conferences
• Reports parental concerns to the supervisory teacher
• Performs other duties related to Special Education, as assigned by the teacher or administrator